Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-18
UNANIMOUS.
DUREAay yorg YESTERDAY OF THE
RAILROAD SUBSCRIPTION.
Big shipment Of Bullion A Serious Run.
away Accident-A singular Case
A Revival Briefs.


Inspector General Francis n. Came.
ron Was to-day appointed on the staif
of General Young at the Atlanta cele-
braiiOD.
An election has been ordered in
Trusyiyania comfy on the question OF
subscribing Sj00OJ to the Carolina,
knoxville and Western railroad.
1hc railway from Statesyillo 20 Tay-
lorsville, Alexander county. was practi-
colly completed to-day.
To-day the Wakc-C County Teachers
Council was organized mere w!tha large
membership. G.. b. benson was elected
president and Eugene q. Harell Sec
rotary.
Thirty-six thousand dollars in gold
bullion was Yesterday shipped from the
Charlotte Office to the Philadelphia
mint 1t is the largest shipment ever
made from that Office.
] he Asheyillo water-works prove e.
lie a failure in a great degree, and are
at present not able 70 furnish D supply.
| This puts people to great annoyance.
! Farmers ~ this section report that
! they lave cured their tobacco, AMI say
the quality is very favorable.
At Durham to-day a savings bank
was organized, with $4,000 capital
| Officers will he elected next week.
An extensive religious revival is IN
| progress at tine Edeuton-S.reet Mctho.
DIST church, tins city, conducted by
| Rev. ". c. Norman.
I'm q runaway accident here this
incoming Augustine Morris, we.i-to-
Go iarmer Of this county, had his leg
broken and was seriously injured GA
tie head.
A very curious case Ia reported I'm
Gml'crd county A man named
John NJ. Britain lost his wife by
death tine last week i'm August The
l,t Of September, 1t appears, h' mar
ned again Just after the concllsionof
the marriage ceremony Britain was
stricken with some disease which IN
moment rendered him scRseless and
speeches.. in that condition h. re-
manned until death came, after some
days, and never spoke to or even
recognized his second wife
The Clarendon cotton-milis, at Fay
cttcville. burned by Sherman, are to
be rebuilt The owner OF the property
is Mir. Mark Morgan, Of Richmond
county, who last week purchased the
site from General A. g. Brady The
latter gentleman. who owns conslerl-
hle property in Fayettcyille, was during
the war commandment Of the famous
| Point Lookout prison. He settled al
! Fayetteville some years since.
II is claimed that arraug ament' will
Zee made TO build the railway from YIN
tton 10 Fayetteville jo High Point aud
Ia. dleman. 1t Is partly graded. II
will be- an important line. A branch
railway into The Randleman section has
long been needed.
j as, week marked the completion of
tho railway from Boykin's. Va, b. RoXo-
lcL y G. There was the usual c'lc-
ma'iou, with excellent speeches. The
people of the rich northeastern section
Of the State are at last getting trans
portation facilities which they have SID
long needed
IL is said that fully twenty-five miles
of tire railway from Monroe, y. c.. To-
Atlanta. Ga, will be i'm operation 10y
the Est Of December. General Il. /.
Eokc, the president, j, 4 thorough
worker, and there has been ~ delay.
! This road will become one OF the most
important southern links Itg.yes the
scaboard system far southern outlets
which It specially needs.
Agents are at work among the negroes
| in parts of the State endeayorug T.
induce them 10 go - California rhc
negroes are assured that they viii be
eiy,n 1850 acres of land aud VIII get
worA at higply. That beats the forty
acros-aud-n-mulr ' scheme, with winch
the negroes in this part of the world
are pretty familiar The genaral,ant,-
mcnt appears TO- be III the nesroes
wish TO 20, lct them 20.
Few W. }. Fulforl hls assumed cli-
toral control OF the Greene county
Ln'rp,iSc, published Mt snow Hill.
tie purchased the paper last week.
u is now claimed that numbers OF
negroes IN Wilson county hll been o--
dCed TO strike for forty cents per iD'
! pounds Tor picking cotton, and thf
some who started to return b. work
were told that if they did $50 th,y would
| BE punished. Some farmers were angry
at this sort Of intimidation and inyOk
the aid Of county authorities Some
hands are Mt work. Others are Idle, fear
| ing violence. The county authorize
propose to prosecute, and this week ar
| rests will be made. The matter mag
cause far greater sensation than no
present
The rains last week appeared to have
been Of a refreshing character and did
very little damage 10 crops.
A preacher nemed knight IS said 10
have eloped with the wife OF Martin
Andrews. OF Caldwell county. some
thlte weeks ago. The husband make,
publication Of the fact Knight
left heavy responsibility behind him
IN the shape Of wife aud twelve chill
dreD. but he has apparently assumed
far heavier one, for the wOmA with
whom he has eloped is his mother-in-
Law. lie must be a heroic man.
The commissioners OF Onsiow county
will Monday take action in regard 10
the ordering of aEtote BY the people on
the issue of $50, 900 in bonds in all Of
the Wilmington, Onslow and East Caro-
lima railroad. The Newbcrne people
desire that this road may be extended
10 that point, and wish to secure unity
| of action.
Burglars are again ut work in John
stOn county. IL Is said that negro
preacher is the leader OF the gang,
which takes the place Of tde one r.
Gently broken up. The preacher es
capped the pcnitentiary by taruing
States evidence, and thus returns 20
his old habits The people are very
angry at the repeated burglaries, and
lynching is quite probable III case any
of the burglars are caught.
The people OF Ashevil!e arc very
much III earnest about voting 100000
TO secure two new railways. They have
the bright example of Durham before
them. Ike sentiment is said 20 be-
practically unanimous as to the vote IN
favor ot both measures.
There have been intimatlons in some
papers that the Richmond and Danyiilc
road would not really build the railways
TO Wilkesboro' and Mocksville. II may
he stated now, on the highest authority,
that both will be built. Work ON the
former row in progress will not top.
and on the latter will begin just as soon
| as Some necessary arFanOemqnt9 ars